Wabah Athena
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Wabah Athena(bahasa Yunani Kuno:Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν,Loimos tôn Athênôn) adalah sebuahepidemiyang terjadi dikota-negaraAthenadiYunanikuno pada tahun kedua (430 SM)Perang Peloponnesiasaat kemenangan Athena. Wabah tersebut menewaskan sekitar 75.000 sampai 100.000 orang dan diyakini memasuki Athena melaluiPiraeus,kota pelabuhan dan sumber pangan dan suplai tunggal.[1]
Referensi
[sunting|sunting sumber]- Dixon B. "Ebola in Greece?"British Medical Journal(1996), 313–430.
- McNeill, William H.Plagues and People.New York: Anchor Books, 1976.ISBN0-385-12122-9.
- Pomeroy, Sarah B.Spartan Women.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.ISBN0-19-513067-7.
- Zinsser, Hans.Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues.Boston,1935; New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996.ISBN1-884822-47-9.
Pranala luar
[sunting|sunting sumber]- Papagrigorakis, MJ; Yapijakis, C; Synodinos, PN; Baziotopoulou-Valavani, E (May 2006). "DNA examination of ancient dental pulp incriminates typhoid fever as a probable cause of the Plague of Athens".Int. J. Infect. Dis.10(3): 206–14.doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2005.09.001
.PMID16412683.and the reply to it by Shapiro et al.
- History of the Peloponnesian War2.47–55.
- ^Live Science articleAccessed January 23, 2006.
- Women in Classical Athens